Quotes About Authority

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

There is no power without justice.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.